BBC- Birtukan Mideksa is the latest significant appointment of a woman to a key public office. Ms Birtukan returned to Ethiopia earlier…
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With Birtukan gone, smooth sailing for Ethiopia’s Meles Zenawi(blog)
Ethiopia’s opposition UDJ party, completely wiped out at last year’s disputed election, says it is regrouping. At a recent news conference, it…
Ethiopia’s Best-Known Opposition Leader Birtukan Mideksa Quitting Politics and Travel to United States
(VOA): Ethiopia’s best-known opposition leader has announced she is quitting politics, at least temporarily, and is going to the United States. Birtukan…
Guillermo Farinas, the Cuban dissident who held a 135-day hunger strike earlier this year, has been awarded the European Parliament’s Sakharov human…
Birtukan Mideksa chosen for Sakharov Prize 2010 three finalists
Ethiopian opposition leader Birtukan Mideksa , Israeli NGO Breaking the Silence and Cuban dissident Guillermo Fariñas are the three shortlisted finalists for…
Over the past several years, Ethiopia’s government, which cherishes its role as a U.S. ally in the volatile Horn of Africa, has…
Ethiopian opposition leader Birtukan Mideksa has been freed from jail. Her release comes four months after the government’s landslide win in elections.…